SmartSDR not starting everytime

I am new to flex and have had my 6300 for roughly a week. When I boot it up and get the green light. I start smartSDR and it see's the flex....I highlight that and click connect and the software says "not responding", so I force a close on smartSDR, reboot the radio and hit connect and it works. If i don't use for a prolonged time, I have this happen always on the first boot....always fires up after reboot.

Sounds like a network glitch. Does you I/P address show that you are connected to the network? There should be a valid I/P address listed next to the IP Address label under the Radio tab. Make sure the I/P address is correct within the allowable limits of your router.

Well, at least you know what to look for when you turn on your radio. If you don't see the 192.1.66.xx , then you to know to do a power recycle before trying to connect. If I were you, I would leave the radio on and reboot the router. Maybe it will "teach" the router.

I had this problem early on when my router was not providing dhcp addresses correctly. Be sure and check the ethernet cable from radio and maybe even change it. Also make sure you are getting Link lights on your router.

This sounds like a networking issue where the flex can't get an ip address. I believe I have heard others with the same problem and its possible a timing issue with flex networking interface. But honestly because its not affecting others I suspect its cabling or router.

Luke if you do a Google search for DHCP timeout you will see a lot of people have problems with their servers/routers etc taking a long time to issue an IP address. There are a number of reasons for this but the bottom line is the second time you reboot the router probably still has the Flex's ethernet MAC address in its memory. This means it doesn't have to search the network for the hardware, it just issues an ip to that MAC address.

It's complicated but basically the router is timing out before it can determine the physical address of the Flex.

It would take some spelunking into your router and don't know if you are a network guy or not but if you can look up the MAC address for the flex, some routers let you assign an IP to that MAC address. That way there would be no delay and your Flex would get the sam IP ever time.﻿

So this gets a little complicated.....the flex is twice removed from the time warner modem. The flex is upstairs and the modem is one floor down. On the modem is a net gear wireless router. In the ham shack I have a netgear extender. It looks like a wifi router and connects to the router below but allows me to plug into the back. The flex is plugged into the back of that (if that makes sense) the signal is strong and never any choppy audio or lag.

Sounds remotely similar to a problem I had for quite some time, where I constantly had to go in and futz with the network settings after every boot to get the connections going for me. I did a search and found this: (it worked for me... maybe for you too. Nice little Windows esoterica...)

I found this on another website and it worked for me:

"When more than one network connection is available, Windows uses the one with the lowest metric value. By default, it automatically assigns a metric value based on the network connection's rated speed. See An explanation of the Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol routes .

To force Windows to use a specific network connection, assign a metric value to each one, giving the lowest value to the desired connection: